The Destructors :: Literary Analysis, Graham Greene

The gang members in Graham Greenes The Destructors are catastrophic puppylike children and teenagers who are unluckily being greatly affected by their surroundings. Placed in wartime London, their townspeople is in rubble from peltings. Peer pressure is no help when a destructive surrounding and vulnerable ages are strongly influencing the instinctive homophile behavior of the members, which causes many of their horrific actions. The characters of Greenes short story are different in their own way. Mike is a childish young boy at the age of nine who was surprised by everything (50). Trevor, remediate known as T, comes off to be one of the nicer and more smooth boys in the gang. there were possibilities about his brooding silence that all(a) recognised (50). Blackie was the gang member who worried that T. was too classy for the gang. he was anxious to retain T. in the gang if he could. It was the word bewitching that worried him- that belonged to a class world (53). However, as the story progresses it comes to be known that Blackie has taken T to be something he is not. The gang concussion every morning in an impromptu car-park, the site of the last bomb of the first blitz has a great impact on their actions. The desolation of the town around them leads T to propose the destruction of a coterminous house which belonged to a man known as doddering Misery. Blackie begins to depend to be the more civil of the two boys when he argues against Ts proposition saying Wed go to jug and We wouldnt adopt time (53). Greene tear down writes Blackie said uneasily, Its proposed that tomorrow and Monday we destroy Old Miserys house (53). When the gang votes to follow through with the destruction, Blackie even contemplates giving up his leadership. He thought of going home, of never return (54). However, he gave into the pressure of wanting to belong to this gang and hold onto his leadership. by and by all, he had nowhere else to go. Driven by the pure, simple an d altruistic intake of fame for the gang, Blackie came back to where T. stood in the shadow of Miserys wall (54). not only does the rubble influence the children to act out, but it also desensitizes them, on with the residents of the town. This is shown very clearly when T. replies Of course I dont loathe him thered be no fun if I scorned him all this hate and love its soft, its hooey.